I fail to see the point you are making - any society under any governmental type falls apart if most people in that society don't work towards maintaining that society.
So other than I know North Korea is a dictatorship, I have no other need to understand how their social system applies to my beliefs - besides which, you're the one who mentioned North Korea so why don't you explain it to me?
You strike me as the type of person who latches on to buzzword phrases without really knowing what they mean.
Yes, I have. To me their harmless but boring - I was neither impressed or appalled by them.
But you are missing my point entirely - you cannot confuse free speech with saying or doing what you like and considering yourself immune to the consequences. The problem with a lot of today's younger generation (and, no, by no means ALL of them) is that they are brought up to be too impulsive and lacking patience and control.
They are pounded constantly with "You can have this NOW if you pay this much for it" messages, and as a result a lot of them never learn to stop and take a deep breath to consider the possible consequences of their actions.
Incidentally, the point regarding "happy slapping" videos was a demonstration of how something that is normal and even funny to teenagers today can actual disgust a middle-aged man like me, leading to the conclusion that there are some clearly gaps in what they and someone like myself considers to be acceptable.
Have you not stopped to consider the merest possibility that the reason why you enjoy the society you do in the US and I do in the UK (no, I'm not American) is BECAUSE most people are decent, law-abiding citizens who accept personal responsibility and do their best to consider others before they make any decisions???
You can write as many fucking laws as you want and have as many heavily armed fucking policemen enforcing those laws as you want, but it will STILL all fall to bits if most people aren't decent and considerate people by their very nature.
And, incidentally, it was about that precise subject YOUR president spoke about in front of our Parliament a week or two ago and, quite frankly, made a very good job of - sometimes you have to do stuff just because it's the RIGHT AND HONOURABLE thing to do, whether or not constitutions or laws say you can or cannot do.
No, I don't believe it should be automatically banned from posting, far from it.
But what I do believe is that if you want to live in a society with other people, even if you want (and have every right) to isolate yourself from those people, you still have a responsibility to be empathetic towards them, because that's what decent people do. And that's precisely why we have laws against murder, bodily harm, robbery, etc., in order to ensure that there is a penalty for demonstration lack of empathy for others.
In this particular instance, the guy filming the situation was not a part of it and should have had enough empathy to stay out the way and let those doing their job get on with it - or else recognise that there are consequences to making yourself involved in a situation where you have no right poking your nose into, especially when, in all likelihood, the only reason to get involved is to further your own personal gains.
The one and only thing I do understand is that I have the power and capbility to do anything that I like in this world - but that because I live in a society where everyone else has the same power and capbility, then I also have to face the consequences of what those actions are on them.
I've learnt that in 40 plus years now, and a single line of abuse from a half-brained troll won't change that one bit.
He's typical of the 99.999% of other teenagers and youths in today's world - constantly pounded by advertising and crap TV about how you're a nobody unless you've always got cameras pointed at you and have sheeple hanging on your every word, this is just him having his 15 minutes of fame.
I'm a guy in my 40s who enjoys about the 1% of YouTube that's any good, but it's ability to grant overnight infamy to kids brainwashed into believing that fame is their only goal is messing with their heads. I'm very broad-minded but even I was absolutely disgusted by crazes like "happy slapping" where the only goal was to get as many people as possible watching and laughing at a video of someone else's misfortune.
Our world is SCREWED until we bring up kids who have the confidence to do the right thing as often as they can because they understand the potential consequences of their actions.
An important lesson that many kids & adults in this world need to learn, summed up in one sentence for easier digestion:
"Free Speech is not the same as having the right to say what you want without facing the consequences of saying it."
I defend anyone's right to draw cartoons of someone's deity, personally I could care less, but if you've not looked at the possible consequences of doing it, then that makes you stupid - and I don't defend stupidity.
If I'm pointing a camera in a public place, it's absolutely nobodies business why I might be doing that.
Then likewise it's nobody's business if I rip the camera out of your hands, stamp on it and tell you to stop trying to further your gains by feeding off of someone else's misery.
Perhaps to agree with you somewhat, I have been at accidents where I've done CPR, wrapped bandages around people, held a hands for comfort, but, I've also pulled the camera out to document what happened - for myself primarily.
Well, if the first part is true then you have my sincere & deepest admiration - but then I would argue that you've become involved, made yourself a part of the situation (and had a positive benefit on it) and if you've decided that filming it has benefits later on, then I cannot argue with that - but that's not the same as someone outside the situation filming it and then becoming involved.
Likewise, I don't object to people filming stuff like that - there have, for example, been a number of, say, air crash investigations that have been solved more quickly because of eye-witness evidence and filming.
But my core point is that *IF* you make a decision to film something, then live with the consequence that you may be seen to be in the way by those who are there to do their jobs - so deal with the consequences.
As I said in the previous reply, I hope that if and when I'm ever faced with a situation where I need to make a split-second decision, then I hope I've got the guts to straightaway and go do what I consider the right and proper thing to do, rather than stand there like a pillock, "umm-ing and arr-ing" about the possible ramifications afterwards.
And, no, I'm in the UK not the US - but your "nobody has any responsibility for anything they do" litigation system is already with us.
Did you even notice that the police killed the man. What exactly is your deffinition of "control"? You may not care about the lives of those around you. You may be to busy to worry about an insident that shows how the police act above the law. But you really shouldn't judge people who do care.
Whether the man lived or died is irrelevant in my argument. If the police were heavy-handed then that would presumably be subject to some kind of enquiry at a later stage.
Incidentally, it's precisely because I DO care about those around me that I have this opinion - I'm sorry, but, as I said earlier, if I see a situation in the street that looks to be in control with the right people doing their jobs for whoever is affected, my standing around gawking like an open-mouthed idiot adds no value to resolving the situation and can, actually, get in the way. Not to mention the fact that I respect the dignity of the individuals involved not to be gawked at.
Let's be honest here - if the police were overstepping the boundaries and they confiscated real evidence in a later prosecution, then more heads would roll then anyway.
I do NOT want to see people in public service do their jobs in such fear of later prosecution that they hesitate or have doubts about the split-second decisions they have to make. And, quite frankly, some half-wit filming it for his own YouTube notoriety would piss me off if I was one of those policemen.
What about the rights of the dead man's family not to have the shooting of this man not plastered over the Internet?
Stuff the legal system, filming something like this is a callous and selfish act because whoever is doing it is just doing so to benefit their own fame & wealth.
I'm not saying the police weren't heavy-handed in this incident but the fact is that they are there to do a job of ensuring criminals are dealt the justice they deserve & a no-hoper with a mobile phone camera should have enough common sense to keep his fat nose out of the police doing their job unless he himself has the guts to sign up & be a police officer himself.
I am sick and tired of endless laws being created for the benefit of people who are just too stupid to understand the possible consequences of their actions. I hope that if I'm ever in a situation whereby someone on the street needs some help or assistance that I can give them, that I then have the courage and compassion to help them out - but if I see a situation whereby it's clear the police and/or other private citizens have the situation under control, then I will just walk on by because my stopping and rubber-necking, or even worse filming it, does not help that situation in any way.
Sorry, but my life is far too busy to care about sitting on my backside and being a voyeur into the lives of everyone else. If everyone else took the same attitude as me then there would be no reason for anyone to stand there filming the event because nobody else would be interested in viewing, or paying to view, the video.
You should not be even remotely considering running Linux unless you are prepared to put in time and effort to embark upon a steep learning curve - especially when it comes to finicky chipsets on laptops and netbooks.
I, on the other hand, run Gentoo Linux and Gnome perfectly happily on an ASUS 1001HA EEE PC and have been doing so for serveral years now. I have had to tweak it on a number of occasions, and still do make changes to it, but that is entirely no different to tweaking Windows XP occasionally to work the way I need it to.
Please do not confuse "I cannot run Linux" with "I am too lazy too learn how to configure Linux optimally for my chosen platform". They are not the same thing.
Incidentally, I do thoroughly recommend you watching the documentary, part one is on YouTube here.
The part I found of particular interest was when the fanboi was placed in the MRI scanner and changes in his brain activity were monitored when he was shown pictures of Apple products. It was proven that the parts of the brain that were stimulated by the pictures are the same parts that are stimulated during sex.
I view that as conclusive proof that since fanbois get their "jollies" from their Apple gadgets, this explains why so many of them are therefore virgins.
My experience is that five years ago, if you asked someone in the street what mobile phone they own, they would have said "Nokia" or "Motorola".
Ask them the question today and they will say "Android", "iPhone" or "Blackberry" - so in the case of Android, the manufacturer brand name has been very diluted, if not lost completely.
This may well be the case with Microsoft also, but at the moment Windows mobile penetration is very small anywhere.
With all respect, my imagination is not stunted enough to the point where I cannot at least partially understand why a materialistic person queues overnight for a concert ticket or pretty gadget. I recognise there are people in this world who lack confidence and are therefore constantly attention seeking by striving to get an advantage over their peers by being "the first on the block".
And if it helps your damaged ego a little, then rest assured I consider people queuing at midnight for the latest Call Of Duty game or Harry Potter book as lacking equal confidence to those who queue for iPads or iPhones.
But I do find that a person who puts themselves at the inconvenience of sleeping on a pavement just because a new shop is opening as highly disturbing, even if he/she gets rewarded with a T-Shirt for such discomfort.
Incidentally, nobody would deny that the Westboro Baptist Church isn't a cult and whilst they have extreme views on homosexuality and military personnel (views to which I in no way subscribe incidentally, before you try to get me on that one), I am not aware that they have committed any acts of violence or endured any group suicides.
If anything, having witnessed some of their members interviewed on British TV where they were ranting on incoherently with spittle forming at the sides of their mouths, I'm very much reminded of the rampant Apple fanboi-ism on here as a reasonable comparison.
It's usual to end a comment or statement with a summation of the point one is trying to make.
Yep, it's definitely there, last line of my comment also.
I have no intention of repeating it here again just because you're wearing Apple-branded mirror shades with the mirrors on the inside - please go find it yourself.
As for stuff I like to do, probably too many and too boring to list here - but somewhat surprisingly, I'd sum them all up with the phrase "Think Differently" in that I try my best to stay well-informed and remain as unswayed as possible by marketing and hype.
I find that before making any decision about any purchase, starting off with the basic premise that "All corporations are evil entities who want to suck as much money from me as possible whilst giving me as little as possible" is a great starting premise.
Oh, and not forgetting that because I'm a confident person with many good friends, I have no need to open display logos of brand loyalty in order to impress them.
For years Microsoft have been desperate to get into telecoms so they can link products like Exchange and Outlook properly into instant and multimedia communications. That's why they have the Office Communicator product to provide the linkage across IM, VoIP and (I assume at some point) video.
Most other telecoms companies have invested heavily into SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) which, for those who don't know, is an open protocol that allows messaging/telephony/video endpoints to register and intercommunicate on the Internet.
Skype doesn't use SIP but their own proprietary protocol, though I believe it can and does interface to SIP - and Microsoft bought Skype recently.
One of the last pieces of the puzzle to solve in VoIP telecoms is to do smart stuff with mobile phones, where you can do transparent movement between cellular networks and the Internet, and build all of that into Enterprise telecoms - so, for example, if you are away from your desk and your desk extension phone rings, you can pick the call up on the mobile phone in your pocket, stuff like that.
Clearly, with what Microsoft has been doing and buying in the past few years, they are definitely interested in telecoms and VoIP, partnering or absorbing a company that make cellular handsets would make sense as part of that overall strategy.
Yep, there's no getting away from the fact that Microsoft have made some blunders in recent years and I personally won't mourn their passing too much - but don't dismiss them just yet.
I'm no MS fan but you are wrong in this instance. Nokia did not want to become "just another Android smartphone company" for reasons of pride in the brand name, they had no choice but to go with Microsoft.
Yes, the story of this partnership is just beginning but both companies do NEED each other if they are going to do anything in the smartphone arena.
They had sat on their backsides and done nothing for years, and when they finally realised it, the one realistic option of forgetting about their own in-house phone OS and going with Android (like Motorola did) was something they refused to do because the Nokia name would have been absorbed into the Android eco-structure with a dilution of their brand name.
Microsoft needed a phone manufacturer for Windows Mobile (or whatever it's called now) and Nokia needed an OS - plus the Nokia name would stand out still.
Nokia were a great mobile phone manufacturer who completely ignored smartphones from the outset - so they were in deep shit even before the Microsoft partnership.
I have no idea where you are in the world but if you're not in the UK (where you can watch it now on iPlayer on the BBC 3 web site), look out for the first in a series of documentaries called "The Secrets Of The Superbrands".
The first one is about technology companies and Apple feature heavily in it.
One particular disturbing scene (to me at least) shows fanbois sleeping rough outside of an Apple store in London overnight, not because of a new product launch the next day but because it was a NEW APPLE STORE opening the next day. Amongst the people queuing were fanbois who had flown in especially from Turkey, China and California.
If that is not the behaviour of disturbed religious cultists then I don't know what is.
I could throw the same accusation at you - you have a good understanding of what Hibernate is on an Apple device but not on devices outside of that. I cannot comment on how good it works on Apple devices because I don't use them, mine is more of general statement on its usefulness as a feature in the first place.
I can only describe what I have witnessed with my own eyes in that I was intrigued that Hibernate seemed to work fine on my Linux EEE PC.
I tested it out for about a half hour until I got bored with it, I tried a few different programs running (admittedly no games) and shut the lid. In each case it came out of Hibernate fine, though took a few seconds more than I would have hoped to come back but then there's maybe a few kernel options or ACPI configuration I could do if I was that bothered about getting it working better.
As for save state before battery fail, I cannot answer that for Linux. I assume it would require some configuration of the acpid daemon but assuming that the platform ACPI chipset is fully supported, there's no reason I could think of why it wouldn't work, although admittedly it might be a bit fiddly to set up.
1. You do not need pretty GUIs on corporate servers like you do on corporate desktops. OS X without the GUI is essentially just BSD UNIX - in which case, why would you not just run BSD UNIX on HP, IBM, Dell x86 servers where those companies have been selling servers with good things like RAID and redundancy for years & who have to compete with each other for best value and price? Otherwise you would have to pay Apple a higher premium price for custom servers from a company new to server business.
2. Linux is free and, with education, is perfectly possible to support in-house. Yet the majority of traditionally Microsoft-based organisations have not adopted Linux much in their core infrastructure - they like MS Exchange, Sharepoint and the other MS products and already have the in-house Microsoft support people to manage them. So why would they retrain and rollout Apple products that will not be as feature-rich and pay more money for. (I'm by no means an MS fanboi, I'm mainly a Linux guy but I say stuff like I see it.)
3. Corporate governance (like PCI) makes it considerably more complicated to maintain PCI compliance with stuff hosted in the Cloud rather than within the organisation itself. This is why corporations moving to hosted/Cloud solutions is very slow and likely to be for the foreseeable future. Microsoft already has a foot in the door with this because they can tie in Cloud features to their applications already running in the Enterprise - but Apple starting this afresh has no chance, they are YEARS behind Microsoft and Google in that area.
4. Based on the above, the only people who will be interested in using Apple's cloud solutions will be their existing user base. The only Apple device I have ever owned is an iPod Touch my missus gave me when she upgraded to iPhone, it's a neat device but sits in my pocket for times when I run out of storage space on my Android phone. Otherwise, I've no interest in Apple's products, far too controlled and locked-down for my tastes, so I'm hardly going to be interested in using their Cloud solution, especially as I'm already using Google's.
In summary, the Cloud solution can and will only be for existing Apple users as an additional add-on service to the products they already own and for which they will obviously pay a cost for.
I own an Asus EEE PC netbook that's a couple of years old now and I run Linux on it.
The other day, I accidentally closed the lid while it was powered on and I was quite surprised to discover that Hibernate seemed to work quite well on it - up to that point, I'd never given Hibernate a second thought.
After I sat down and thought about it for a while, I decided that if my life was so chock full of shit to do that 30 seconds to wait for my netbook to boot fully from a power on was far too long, then I probably need to go do some serious time management in my life overall.
The point I'm trying to make is that despite the fact that the Hibernate feature works okay, I don't use it - let alone a Hibernation that also survives a reboot.
People seem to place such importance on useless features that are only there because those same people don't organise themselves better - a bit of a paradox if you think about it.
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I fail to see the point you are making - any society under any governmental type falls apart if most people in that society don't work towards maintaining that society.
So other than I know North Korea is a dictatorship, I have no other need to understand how their social system applies to my beliefs - besides which, you're the one who mentioned North Korea so why don't you explain it to me?
You strike me as the type of person who latches on to buzzword phrases without really knowing what they mean.
Yes, I have. To me their harmless but boring - I was neither impressed or appalled by them.
But you are missing my point entirely - you cannot confuse free speech with saying or doing what you like and considering yourself immune to the consequences. The problem with a lot of today's younger generation (and, no, by no means ALL of them) is that they are brought up to be too impulsive and lacking patience and control.
They are pounded constantly with "You can have this NOW if you pay this much for it" messages, and as a result a lot of them never learn to stop and take a deep breath to consider the possible consequences of their actions.
Incidentally, the point regarding "happy slapping" videos was a demonstration of how something that is normal and even funny to teenagers today can actual disgust a middle-aged man like me, leading to the conclusion that there are some clearly gaps in what they and someone like myself considers to be acceptable.
Have you not stopped to consider the merest possibility that the reason why you enjoy the society you do in the US and I do in the UK (no, I'm not American) is BECAUSE most people are decent, law-abiding citizens who accept personal responsibility and do their best to consider others before they make any decisions???
You can write as many fucking laws as you want and have as many heavily armed fucking policemen enforcing those laws as you want, but it will STILL all fall to bits if most people aren't decent and considerate people by their very nature.
And, incidentally, it was about that precise subject YOUR president spoke about in front of our Parliament a week or two ago and, quite frankly, made a very good job of - sometimes you have to do stuff just because it's the RIGHT AND HONOURABLE thing to do, whether or not constitutions or laws say you can or cannot do.
No, I don't believe it should be automatically banned from posting, far from it.
But what I do believe is that if you want to live in a society with other people, even if you want (and have every right) to isolate yourself from those people, you still have a responsibility to be empathetic towards them, because that's what decent people do. And that's precisely why we have laws against murder, bodily harm, robbery, etc., in order to ensure that there is a penalty for demonstration lack of empathy for others.
In this particular instance, the guy filming the situation was not a part of it and should have had enough empathy to stay out the way and let those doing their job get on with it - or else recognise that there are consequences to making yourself involved in a situation where you have no right poking your nose into, especially when, in all likelihood, the only reason to get involved is to further your own personal gains.
The one and only thing I do understand is that I have the power and capbility to do anything that I like in this world - but that because I live in a society where everyone else has the same power and capbility, then I also have to face the consequences of what those actions are on them.
I've learnt that in 40 plus years now, and a single line of abuse from a half-brained troll won't change that one bit.
He's typical of the 99.999% of other teenagers and youths in today's world - constantly pounded by advertising and crap TV about how you're a nobody unless you've always got cameras pointed at you and have sheeple hanging on your every word, this is just him having his 15 minutes of fame.
I'm a guy in my 40s who enjoys about the 1% of YouTube that's any good, but it's ability to grant overnight infamy to kids brainwashed into believing that fame is their only goal is messing with their heads. I'm very broad-minded but even I was absolutely disgusted by crazes like "happy slapping" where the only goal was to get as many people as possible watching and laughing at a video of someone else's misfortune.
Our world is SCREWED until we bring up kids who have the confidence to do the right thing as often as they can because they understand the potential consequences of their actions.
An important lesson that many kids & adults in this world need to learn, summed up in one sentence for easier digestion:
"Free Speech is not the same as having the right to say what you want without facing the consequences of saying it."
I defend anyone's right to draw cartoons of someone's deity, personally I could care less, but if you've not looked at the possible consequences of doing it, then that makes you stupid - and I don't defend stupidity.
If I'm pointing a camera in a public place, it's absolutely nobodies business why I might be doing that.
Then likewise it's nobody's business if I rip the camera out of your hands, stamp on it and tell you to stop trying to further your gains by feeding off of someone else's misery.
Perhaps to agree with you somewhat, I have been at accidents where I've done CPR, wrapped bandages around people, held a hands for comfort, but, I've also pulled the camera out to document what happened - for myself primarily.
Well, if the first part is true then you have my sincere & deepest admiration - but then I would argue that you've become involved, made yourself a part of the situation (and had a positive benefit on it) and if you've decided that filming it has benefits later on, then I cannot argue with that - but that's not the same as someone outside the situation filming it and then becoming involved.
Likewise, I don't object to people filming stuff like that - there have, for example, been a number of, say, air crash investigations that have been solved more quickly because of eye-witness evidence and filming.
But my core point is that *IF* you make a decision to film something, then live with the consequence that you may be seen to be in the way by those who are there to do their jobs - so deal with the consequences.
As I said in the previous reply, I hope that if and when I'm ever faced with a situation where I need to make a split-second decision, then I hope I've got the guts to straightaway and go do what I consider the right and proper thing to do, rather than stand there like a pillock, "umm-ing and arr-ing" about the possible ramifications afterwards.
And, no, I'm in the UK not the US - but your "nobody has any responsibility for anything they do" litigation system is already with us.
Did you even notice that the police killed the man. What exactly is your deffinition of "control"? You may not care about the lives of those around you. You may be to busy to worry about an insident that shows how the police act above the law. But you really shouldn't judge people who do care.
Whether the man lived or died is irrelevant in my argument. If the police were heavy-handed then that would presumably be subject to some kind of enquiry at a later stage.
Incidentally, it's precisely because I DO care about those around me that I have this opinion - I'm sorry, but, as I said earlier, if I see a situation in the street that looks to be in control with the right people doing their jobs for whoever is affected, my standing around gawking like an open-mouthed idiot adds no value to resolving the situation and can, actually, get in the way. Not to mention the fact that I respect the dignity of the individuals involved not to be gawked at.
Let's be honest here - if the police were overstepping the boundaries and they confiscated real evidence in a later prosecution, then more heads would roll then anyway.
I do NOT want to see people in public service do their jobs in such fear of later prosecution that they hesitate or have doubts about the split-second decisions they have to make. And, quite frankly, some half-wit filming it for his own YouTube notoriety would piss me off if I was one of those policemen.
What about the rights of the dead man's family not to have the shooting of this man not plastered over the Internet?
Stuff the legal system, filming something like this is a callous and selfish act because whoever is doing it is just doing so to benefit their own fame & wealth.
I'm not saying the police weren't heavy-handed in this incident but the fact is that they are there to do a job of ensuring criminals are dealt the justice they deserve & a no-hoper with a mobile phone camera should have enough common sense to keep his fat nose out of the police doing their job unless he himself has the guts to sign up & be a police officer himself.
I am sick and tired of endless laws being created for the benefit of people who are just too stupid to understand the possible consequences of their actions. I hope that if I'm ever in a situation whereby someone on the street needs some help or assistance that I can give them, that I then have the courage and compassion to help them out - but if I see a situation whereby it's clear the police and/or other private citizens have the situation under control, then I will just walk on by because my stopping and rubber-necking, or even worse filming it, does not help that situation in any way.
Sorry, but my life is far too busy to care about sitting on my backside and being a voyeur into the lives of everyone else. If everyone else took the same attitude as me then there would be no reason for anyone to stand there filming the event because nobody else would be interested in viewing, or paying to view, the video.
In which case, you did the right thing.
You should not be even remotely considering running Linux unless you are prepared to put in time and effort to embark upon a steep learning curve - especially when it comes to finicky chipsets on laptops and netbooks.
I, on the other hand, run Gentoo Linux and Gnome perfectly happily on an ASUS 1001HA EEE PC and have been doing so for serveral years now. I have had to tweak it on a number of occasions, and still do make changes to it, but that is entirely no different to tweaking Windows XP occasionally to work the way I need it to.
Please do not confuse "I cannot run Linux" with "I am too lazy too learn how to configure Linux optimally for my chosen platform". They are not the same thing.
Incidentally, I do thoroughly recommend you watching the documentary, part one is on YouTube here.
The part I found of particular interest was when the fanboi was placed in the MRI scanner and changes in his brain activity were monitored when he was shown pictures of Apple products. It was proven that the parts of the brain that were stimulated by the pictures are the same parts that are stimulated during sex.
I view that as conclusive proof that since fanbois get their "jollies" from their Apple gadgets, this explains why so many of them are therefore virgins.
My experience is that five years ago, if you asked someone in the street what mobile phone they own, they would have said "Nokia" or "Motorola".
Ask them the question today and they will say "Android", "iPhone" or "Blackberry" - so in the case of Android, the manufacturer brand name has been very diluted, if not lost completely.
This may well be the case with Microsoft also, but at the moment Windows mobile penetration is very small anywhere.
With all respect, my imagination is not stunted enough to the point where I cannot at least partially understand why a materialistic person queues overnight for a concert ticket or pretty gadget. I recognise there are people in this world who lack confidence and are therefore constantly attention seeking by striving to get an advantage over their peers by being "the first on the block".
And if it helps your damaged ego a little, then rest assured I consider people queuing at midnight for the latest Call Of Duty game or Harry Potter book as lacking equal confidence to those who queue for iPads or iPhones.
But I do find that a person who puts themselves at the inconvenience of sleeping on a pavement just because a new shop is opening as highly disturbing, even if he/she gets rewarded with a T-Shirt for such discomfort.
Incidentally, nobody would deny that the Westboro Baptist Church isn't a cult and whilst they have extreme views on homosexuality and military personnel (views to which I in no way subscribe incidentally, before you try to get me on that one), I am not aware that they have committed any acts of violence or endured any group suicides.
If anything, having witnessed some of their members interviewed on British TV where they were ranting on incoherently with spittle forming at the sides of their mouths, I'm very much reminded of the rampant Apple fanboi-ism on here as a reasonable comparison.
It's usual to end a comment or statement with a summation of the point one is trying to make.
Yep, it's definitely there, last line of my comment also.
I have no intention of repeating it here again just because you're wearing Apple-branded mirror shades with the mirrors on the inside - please go find it yourself.
As for stuff I like to do, probably too many and too boring to list here - but somewhat surprisingly, I'd sum them all up with the phrase "Think Differently" in that I try my best to stay well-informed and remain as unswayed as possible by marketing and hype.
I find that before making any decision about any purchase, starting off with the basic premise that "All corporations are evil entities who want to suck as much money from me as possible whilst giving me as little as possible" is a great starting premise.
Oh, and not forgetting that because I'm a confident person with many good friends, I have no need to open display logos of brand loyalty in order to impress them.
I agree with you.
For years Microsoft have been desperate to get into telecoms so they can link products like Exchange and Outlook properly into instant and multimedia communications. That's why they have the Office Communicator product to provide the linkage across IM, VoIP and (I assume at some point) video.
Most other telecoms companies have invested heavily into SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) which, for those who don't know, is an open protocol that allows messaging/telephony/video endpoints to register and intercommunicate on the Internet.
Skype doesn't use SIP but their own proprietary protocol, though I believe it can and does interface to SIP - and Microsoft bought Skype recently.
One of the last pieces of the puzzle to solve in VoIP telecoms is to do smart stuff with mobile phones, where you can do transparent movement between cellular networks and the Internet, and build all of that into Enterprise telecoms - so, for example, if you are away from your desk and your desk extension phone rings, you can pick the call up on the mobile phone in your pocket, stuff like that.
Clearly, with what Microsoft has been doing and buying in the past few years, they are definitely interested in telecoms and VoIP, partnering or absorbing a company that make cellular handsets would make sense as part of that overall strategy.
I'm no MS fan, I'm a Linux bloke, but I heard a fact today that made me think that there's "life in the old dog yet".
Apparently, Microsoft Kinect is currently the fastest selling electronic device ever - yep, faster selling than iPhones, iPads, Android phones, etc. etc.
Yep, there's no getting away from the fact that Microsoft have made some blunders in recent years and I personally won't mourn their passing too much - but don't dismiss them just yet.
There's a written agreement that some KDE foundation somewhere can take over the ownership of Qt if development stops from Nokia. It is not an issue.
And for the record, I don't like KDE much anyway, I'm a Gnome bloke through-and-through, but the truth is the truth.
I'm no MS fan but you are wrong in this instance. Nokia did not want to become "just another Android smartphone company" for reasons of pride in the brand name, they had no choice but to go with Microsoft.
Yes, the story of this partnership is just beginning but both companies do NEED each other if they are going to do anything in the smartphone arena.
They actually had no choice in the matter.
They had sat on their backsides and done nothing for years, and when they finally realised it, the one realistic option of forgetting about their own in-house phone OS and going with Android (like Motorola did) was something they refused to do because the Nokia name would have been absorbed into the Android eco-structure with a dilution of their brand name.
Microsoft needed a phone manufacturer for Windows Mobile (or whatever it's called now) and Nokia needed an OS - plus the Nokia name would stand out still.
Nokia were a great mobile phone manufacturer who completely ignored smartphones from the outset - so they were in deep shit even before the Microsoft partnership.
I wish that were the case.
I have no idea where you are in the world but if you're not in the UK (where you can watch it now on iPlayer on the BBC 3 web site), look out for the first in a series of documentaries called "The Secrets Of The Superbrands".
The first one is about technology companies and Apple feature heavily in it.
One particular disturbing scene (to me at least) shows fanbois sleeping rough outside of an Apple store in London overnight, not because of a new product launch the next day but because it was a NEW APPLE STORE opening the next day. Amongst the people queuing were fanbois who had flown in especially from Turkey, China and California.
If that is not the behaviour of disturbed religious cultists then I don't know what is.
I could throw the same accusation at you - you have a good understanding of what Hibernate is on an Apple device but not on devices outside of that. I cannot comment on how good it works on Apple devices because I don't use them, mine is more of general statement on its usefulness as a feature in the first place.
I can only describe what I have witnessed with my own eyes in that I was intrigued that Hibernate seemed to work fine on my Linux EEE PC.
I tested it out for about a half hour until I got bored with it, I tried a few different programs running (admittedly no games) and shut the lid. In each case it came out of Hibernate fine, though took a few seconds more than I would have hoped to come back but then there's maybe a few kernel options or ACPI configuration I could do if I was that bothered about getting it working better.
As for save state before battery fail, I cannot answer that for Linux. I assume it would require some configuration of the acpid daemon but assuming that the platform ACPI chipset is fully supported, there's no reason I could think of why it wouldn't work, although admittedly it might be a bit fiddly to set up.
You are clearly deluded if you believe this.
1. You do not need pretty GUIs on corporate servers like you do on corporate desktops. OS X without the GUI is essentially just BSD UNIX - in which case, why would you not just run BSD UNIX on HP, IBM, Dell x86 servers where those companies have been selling servers with good things like RAID and redundancy for years & who have to compete with each other for best value and price? Otherwise you would have to pay Apple a higher premium price for custom servers from a company new to server business.
2. Linux is free and, with education, is perfectly possible to support in-house. Yet the majority of traditionally Microsoft-based organisations have not adopted Linux much in their core infrastructure - they like MS Exchange, Sharepoint and the other MS products and already have the in-house Microsoft support people to manage them. So why would they retrain and rollout Apple products that will not be as feature-rich and pay more money for. (I'm by no means an MS fanboi, I'm mainly a Linux guy but I say stuff like I see it.)
3. Corporate governance (like PCI) makes it considerably more complicated to maintain PCI compliance with stuff hosted in the Cloud rather than within the organisation itself. This is why corporations moving to hosted/Cloud solutions is very slow and likely to be for the foreseeable future. Microsoft already has a foot in the door with this because they can tie in Cloud features to their applications already running in the Enterprise - but Apple starting this afresh has no chance, they are YEARS behind Microsoft and Google in that area.
4. Based on the above, the only people who will be interested in using Apple's cloud solutions will be their existing user base. The only Apple device I have ever owned is an iPod Touch my missus gave me when she upgraded to iPhone, it's a neat device but sits in my pocket for times when I run out of storage space on my Android phone. Otherwise, I've no interest in Apple's products, far too controlled and locked-down for my tastes, so I'm hardly going to be interested in using their Cloud solution, especially as I'm already using Google's.
In summary, the Cloud solution can and will only be for existing Apple users as an additional add-on service to the products they already own and for which they will obviously pay a cost for.
I own an Asus EEE PC netbook that's a couple of years old now and I run Linux on it.
The other day, I accidentally closed the lid while it was powered on and I was quite surprised to discover that Hibernate seemed to work quite well on it - up to that point, I'd never given Hibernate a second thought.
After I sat down and thought about it for a while, I decided that if my life was so chock full of shit to do that 30 seconds to wait for my netbook to boot fully from a power on was far too long, then I probably need to go do some serious time management in my life overall.
The point I'm trying to make is that despite the fact that the Hibernate feature works okay, I don't use it - let alone a Hibernation that also survives a reboot.
People seem to place such importance on useless features that are only there because those same people don't organise themselves better - a bit of a paradox if you think about it.